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Friday, May 13, 2011

Blogging Interruption

THE BLOGGER.COM system I use for this website had technical problems for a few days, and all blog postings created since Wednesday were deleted. However, I can't use this as an excuse, since I haven't been posting out of sheer sloth.

But here is a picture of the Missouri River, taken at night a week or so ago:

This is the Centaur Chute with Howell Island on the left. If you click the photo twice you can see it displayed on a black background.

It was very dark, and I had my camera on a tripod for a nearly two minute exposure. The blue is just the normal sky blue color, greatly amplified in brightness due to the exposure. You can see a bit of orange on the clouds to the right due to the distant city lighting.

I was particularly pleased that some green in the trees is still visible, as well as some texture in the forest. Usually in shots like this they would end up a featureless black color.

The river was flowing pretty quickly due to flooding, but again the long exposure evens things out a bit and makes it appear calmer that it was at the time.

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